Elfriede Margaret Muller

Funeral services for Elfriede M. Muller, 95, of Truman, Minnesota will be 10:00 a.m. Thursday, January 15, 2004, at the Lutheran Retirement Home in Truman with the Rev. Nathan Rusert of St. Paul's Lutheran Church officiating. Burial will be in Osage Public Cemetery in Osage, Iowa. Mrs. Muller died Monday morning, January 12, 2004, at the Lutheran Retirement Home in Truman. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the nursing home. Arrangements were made by Olson-Zaharia Funeral Home in Truman. Elfriede Margaret Kerndt, the daughter of Richard and Margaret (Michael) Kerndt, was born in Berlin, Germany on January 13, 1908. She was confirmed on March 21, 1923 in Germany at a Lutheran Church. She attended a private school for girls in Germany. Elfriede came to America and settled with other relatives in Oak Park, Illinois in 1923. On October 17, 1929, she was united in marriage to Fritz W. Muller in Oak Park. Following their marriage they farmed near Osage, Iowa. Elfriede became an American citizen on May 5, 1937. Mr. Muller died on July 14, 1976 and she continued to live in Osage and Forest City, Iowa before moving to Minnesota. She has been a resident of Lakeview Methodist Health Care Center in Fairmont and the Lutheran Retirement Home in Truman. Elfriede was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church and Trinity Lutheran Church of Osage, Iowa. She is survived by two daughters, Elaine Ritz and her husband, Raymond of Truman, Minnesota and Phyllis Disque and her husband, Richard of Forest City, Iowa; grandchildren, Deb Manley of Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, Monte Moore and his wife, Dawn of Forest City, Iowa, Brett Moore of Lake Mills, Iowa; great-grandchildren, Jacklyn Raye Gronholz, Caitlin and Mariah, and Natalie and Riley Moore. She was preceded in death by grandparents, William and Paulina Michael, who made their home with the Mullers; parents, Richard and Margaret Kerndt; her husband, Fritz W. Muller; and a son, Ramon Muller. In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to the charity of the donor's choice.